Bitcoin holds near $75,000 after tech stock rout, altcoins suffer steeper losses

A record hack, a blue wave and a tech stock rout have given Bitcoin investors plenty to worry about. Yet the leading cryptocurrency has fallen only about 1% in the past 24 hours and now trades near $75,000. “It could have gotten hit a lot harder,” said John LaForge, chief alternatives strategist at Ned Davis Research. “The fact that it’s still… holding the 75 to 80 [range], I consider it a mild positive.”

Bitcoin’s latest decline came after weekend revelations about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s affair—and the company’s subsequent investigation into whether he was targeted by Chinese intelligence. The news followed two other setbacks for the industry: a Democratic takeover of Congress that dealt losses to crypto-backed candidates, and a hack that drained roughly $6.3 billion from Binance, the........

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